Combined planter and fertilizer dropper



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Oct. 8, 1940.

E. W. MILLIMAN COMBINED PLANTER AND FERTILIZER DOPPER Filed Jan. 27, 1939 if E . 7 i@ .tf i 74 l Jm INVENTOR- I. u, D; 7- j L7M/0007 M/I//Y/z'md/z Patented Oct. 8, 1940 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE COMLBJNED PLANTER AND' FERTILIZER D'ROPPER Elwood W. Milliman, Burr Oak, Mich.

Application January 27, 1939, Serial No. 253,028

Claims. (Cl. 111-98) This invention relates to improvements in comwhen in its normal or closed position to close bined planters and fertilizer droppers. the lower end of the fixed member` as is indicated The main objects of this invention are: by dotted lines'in Fig. 2, this being the normal First, to provide a comb-ined hand planter and or unactuated position of the swingable mem- 5 fertilizer dropper in which the fertilizer is simulber.

taneously deposited with the depositing of seeds r The charging slide 6 is pivoted at M between and in laterally spaced relation thereto and somethe flanges of the swingable member so that it what below the seeds. is actuated by the swinging thereof and when Second, to provide a combined planter and ferthe swingable member is shown in the position 105 tilizer distributer having these features in which shown by full lines in Fig. l and dotted lines in lo the fertilizer is distributed and substantially Fig. 2, the charge device is actuated to deliver mixed with earth. a charge into the closed chute.

Third, to provide a structure of this class which An actuating lever I5 is pivotally mounted at is comparatively simple and economical in strucitbetween the flanges Il of the seed delivery ture, light in weight and easy to operate. blade and connected by the link i8 to an ear I9 15 Objects relating to details and economies of on the swingable chuteA member l2 'and by the the invention will appear from the description to link to the seed delivery means 5. This lever follow. The invention is dened and pointed out is provided with a fulcrurn shoe 2l carried by in the claims. the bowed arms 22 connected to the actuating 90; A preferred embodiment of the invention is illever adjacent its lower end and by the brace or 2'@ lustrated in the accompanying drawing, in strut 23. which: In operation of the planter, it is Viirst pushed Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a combined plantdownwardly so that its planting blade penetrates er and fertilizer dropper embodying the features the earth tothe desired depth and the staff is of my invention. then rocked or swung forwardly. The shoe 2l 25 Fie. 2 is a fragmentary View partially in Verticontacting with the earth causes the actuating cal section through the fertilizer depositing chute lever to Swingon its pivot, thereby Opening the and hopper. seed delivery plate 24: on the lower end of the Fig- 3 iS a fragmentary diagrarlma' VGW llever I5, also swinging the chute member l2, de-

301 lustrang the laterally spaced relatiOn 0f the livering the charge of seed and also of fertilizer 30 seed and fertilizer depositing means and the that may be Within the Chutes, p 1 ela'tve Position 0f depositing 1 the gOU-nd- It will be noted that the fertilizer chute mem- `Refe1`fmg to the drawmg l 1S the Staff of a' ber I2 extends substantially below the tip of y hand planter and 2 the handle thereof. -On the the planting blade and is laterally spaced the1.e front 51de of the Sta I mou?? the seed hopper f' from. Also it will be noted that, with said plant- 3'5 and on its rear side the fertilizer hopper il. ingbl'ade In embedded in the earth the lower The see hoppr 1S tprovld'ed Vlvlth a Stled de' end of lthe relatively movable swingable member hvery metns. desgneq gnrl lytt dernu' l2 is actuated through the earth with a swinging metal 5 Thls mans 1S mdlca e y O. e. likes or sweeping movement, the two positionsy being 40 gnk' as the detalls form no part of uns. mvmindicated in Fig. 2, which serves to substantially 1.0 lon' v spread the charge of fertilizer and the charge of -cf i e horialrlaplri/igxiltllga. Isulclnlei loplleaeo fertilizer is substantially mixed with the earth and bottom so that when in one position as shown that may fall m at the Teal" 0f the SWmgabe in Fig. 2 it receives a charge of fertilizer indimember as the member l2 Swings rearwardly SLO 4D cated at 8. from its closed to fully open position. The 45 The seed hopper is provided with a delivery charge of fertilizer is in such proximity to the chute 9 terminating at the planting blade Ill. seed that it is available when the plants begin The fertilizer hopper is provided with a delivery to grow but is not in such position as to burn the 53 chute comprising the fixed channel member Il young plants or the sprouts and the substantial 50l and the coacting swingable channel member I 2 spreading and'mixing of the fertilizer with the which embraces the flanges of the swingable earth that results from this delivery means also member and is pivoted thereon at i3. This minimizes the danger of burning. swingable member projects forwardly below the The spring 25 connected at one end to a fixed lower end of the iixed member and is adapted part and at its other end to the lever I serves 55 to return the lever to its normal chute closing position.

I have illustrated and described my improvements in an embodiment which I have found very practical. I have not attempted to illustrate or describe certain other embodiments or adaptations which I contemplate as it is belived that this disclosure will enable those skilled in the art to embody or adapt my improvements as may be desired.

Having thus described myinvention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In a combined planter and ,fertilizer dropper, the combination with a stalT, of seed and fertilizer hoppers arranged on opposite sides of the staff, a seed delivery chute terminating in a planting blade, a seed delivery means for said seed hopper, a fertilizer delivery chute disposed in laterally spaced relation to said seed delivery chute and comprising a xed member of channel cross section and an opposed swingable member of channel cross section embracing the iianges of said fixed member and pivoted thereto and adapted when swung to one position to close the lower end of the fixed member of the chute, the lower end of said swingable chute member projecting substantially below the lower end of said planting blade and being adapted to make a lswinging discharge movement in laterally spaced relation to said `planting blade, a fertilizer charge device operatively associated with said fertilizer hopper and pivotally connected to the upper endof said swingable chute member between the iianges thereof, an actuating lever pivoted upon said seed chute planting blade and provided With a discharge plate coacting with said planting blade, and links connecting said actuating lever to said seed delivery means and to said swingable fertilizer chute member. n

2. In a combined planter and fertilizer dropper, the combination with a staff, of seed and fertilizer hoppers mounted on said staff, a seed delivery chute terminating in a planting blade, a seed delivery means for controlling the delivery of seeds from said seed hopper to said delivery chute, a fertilizer delivery chute disposed in laterally spaced relation to said planting blade and comprising a fixed memberof channel crosssection and an opposed swingable memberof channel cross section embracing the flanges of said fixed member and pivoted thereto and adapted when swung to one position to close the lower end of the fixed member of the chute, the lower end of said swingable chute member projecting substantially below the lower end of said planting `blade and being adapted to make a swinging discharge movement in laterally spaced relation toy said planting blade, a fertilizer charge device operatively associated with said fertilizer hopper, and an actuating lever provided with a fulcrum shoe and operatively connected with said seed delivery means, said swingable chute member and said fertilizer charge device, said planting blade being spaced laterally with reference to the plane of swinging movement of said swingable member sufficiently that seed and fertilizer are deposited out of contact'with one another.

3. In a combined planter and fertilizer dropper, the combination with al staif, of seed and fertilizer hoppers mountedon said staff, a seed delivery chute terminating in a planting blade, a discharge plate coacting therewith, a seed delivery means for said seed hopper, a fertilizer delivery chute disposed in laterally spaced relation to said seed planting blade and comprising a fixed member andan opposed swingable member pivoted thereto and adapted when swung to one position to close the lower end of the fixed member of the chute, the lower end of said swingable chute member projecting substantially below the lower end of said planting blade and being adapted to make a swinging discharge movement in laterally spaced relation to said planting blade, a fertilizer charge device operatively .associated with saidl fertilizer hopper and connected to the upper end of said swingable chute member, and an actuating lever provided with a fulcrum shoe operatively associated with said plate and operatively connected with said seed delivery means and swingable chute member, said planting blade being spaced laterally with reference to the plane of swinging movement of said swingable member sufficiently that seed and fertilizer are deposited out of contact with one another.

4. In a combined planter and fertilizer dropper, the combination with a staff, of seed and fertilizer hoppers mounted thereon, a seed delivery means including a chute terminating in a planting blade,-

a fertilizer delivery means comprising a chute disposed in laterally spaced relation to said seed delivery chute, a coacting swingable member pivoted relative to the chute of the fertilizer delivery means, said last named mem-ber terminating in a plane substantially below the lower end of the planting blade and being adapted' to make a swinging discharge movement in laterally spaced relation to said blade whereby it sweeps through the earth as the fertilizer is discharged, and a fertilizer charge device delivering fertilizer from said fertilizer hopper to said fertilizer delivery chute, and means for actuating said seed delivery means to deliver seed and for simultaneously actuating said fertilizer delivery means to deliver a charge of fertilizer in laterally spaced relation to the point of delivery of the seed, said planting blade being spaced laterally with reference to the plane of swinging movement of said swingable member sufficiently that seed and fertilizer are deposited out of contact with one another.

5. In a combined planter and fertilizer dropper, the combination of seed and fertilizer hoppers, seed delivery means including a chute terminating in a planting blade, and a control member pivoted to said chute, a fertilizer delivery means comrising a chute disposed in laterally spaced relation to said seed delivery chute, a coacting swingable member pivoted relative to the chute of the fertilizer delivery means, said last named member terminating in a plane substantially below the kend of lthe planting blade, and a fertilizer charge device delivering fertilizer from said fertilizer hopper to said fertilizer delivery chute, and means including members connected to said swingable member and to said seed chute control member for actuating said seed delivery means to deliver seed and for simultaneously actuating said fertilizer means to deliver a charge of fertilizer in laterally spaced relation to the point of delivery of the seed.

ELWOOD W. MILLIMAN. 

